- Crystal-clear sound, technology of reproduction essentially differs from Winamp and WMP
- Sensitive equalizer
- A maximum of functionality from a minimum of resources
- The minimal consumption of system resources
- Multilingual support
- Support of set of formats of audio
- Adjustment of global and local hot keys (patterns from WinAmp and WMP)
- Flexible options of the program and various covers will allow you to make A.I.M.P. completely individual
- Support of plug-ins with which help it is possible to expand opportunities of the program
- The audioconverter codes music from the most different formats in wma, mp3, wav, ogg
- audioGrab allows to overtake AudioCD in Mp3, OGG, WAV or WM
- The sound recording will allow you to write down a sound from any audio of the device in system
- The built - in editor of tags, support WMA, MP3, OGG
- An opportunity of record AudioCD, MP3-disks and disks with given

AIMP is the best audio player IMHO. MPC is the best movie/video player IMHO. I use also VLC - it's my secondary video player. Everyone need something else, I need easy to use, intuitive player with many features, good customizable. But this is the AUDIO pleayer only, so let's talk about audio players.

Winamp is dead for me - so many useless features (for me) are added, but some very important basic features are still missing. Now it's even bloatware, limited, shareware, buggy - this is the main reason why I tried AIMP - even the previous beta versions were much more stable that Winamp 5.5. I don't have any reason to use Winamp now.

Player
+ Auto rename playlist on manual saving
+ Quick search up & down by list
+ Transparency of main windows
+ Small visual changes
+ Method of searching in playlist was updated - now the result is not affected by order of parts
+ Method of searching in playlist was also accelerated
+ Azerbaijani, сatalan, сhuvash, slovenian, Tajik, Thai localizations were added

Player
+ AutoJump to the next file in tag editor was added
+ Selection in playlist will move to the current file regardless of the focus if manual navigation used
+ Function of template formation was speeded up
+ Arabic and Belarussian (true) localizations were added

Fixed
- Bug in CUE-Parser
- Bug with Playlist selection in autojump to next playlist function
- Bug with playlist window position in dualview mode
- Bug with QuickFileInfo updating
- Bug with crossfade between tracks with active Mute or PreAMP modes
- Bug with randomize by playlist function in DragNDrop Mode
- Bug with playing of multichannel audio
- Bug with tracklist genereation by template

Audio Library
+ Engine switshed to SQLite3
+ Quick search for items in the groups-tree
+ Capability to change the order of table columns
+ Files add to the library by simply drag-n-drop
+ A new menu for database service
+ An interface of library updated
+ Quick navigation panel
+ FLAC / APE / AAC / MPC support
+ Expanded integration with player
+ The integration of the Player to the Library window
+ Rating displaying in the playlist
+ Control panel for playback
+ Relative paths saving for files from removable media

Playlists
+ Capability to Autosave playlist at the address where it opened (kept in profile folder previously)
+ Capability to use conditional operator in a string templates
+ Capability to add folders series to playlist by Open dialog
+ Capability to cut the file from one playlist to another (when moving with Alt button down)
+ Code optimization
+ Support of m3u8 playlists
+ When you add folder to an empty playlist it name became as the name of a folder
+ Bookmarks scrolling by mouse wheel in playlist
+ Load / save playlist's operations accelerated
+ Auto-sorting playlists in the window "Playlist Customization"

Player
+ Capability to set a conversion table for non-Unicode strings
+ Added CD-Text support
+ Added LastFM plugin for work with LastFM service
+ Further development of the "copy to folder" function - list of "recent folders" added
+ Right-click on a traveling line to open the Quick Tag Editor
+ Stop button flashing when you set "stop after current track" option
+ Support of MMS protocol
+ Options for MIDI / MOD files playback
+ Display the real names of tracks instead of "next / previous file" on navigation buttons
+ Playback status displaying in the tip of tray icon
+ Quick Tag Editor updated
+ Capability to edit path of the file
+ Copy data to clipboard button
+ Copy file to clipboard button
+ Autofill tags based on name / path of file
+ New design
+ Bookmarks Manager updated
+ Settings for display mode
+ Advanced search
+ Capability to search for a job Playlist File
+ Playlist Manager calls from Advanced search window
+ Displaying the file number in the playlist
+ CUE-Sheets module redesigned (track switching from the context menu of the current playback position)
+ Options window ergonomic increased
+ Transparency settings are improved for main windows
+ Playlist saving on player close

AIMP - Freeware i went to the site and it said ATTENTION CLICK HERE YOU CAN HAVE FREE GOLD MEMBERSHIP ONLY YOU. So it clicked on it and it wrecked the down load and i could not get that gold membership TO RE DO THE PROCEEDURE FOR THE GOLD MEMBERSHIP and when i downloaded the freeware it would download a empty zip i tried 2 times same result. So i emailed them for help hopfully they can fix this. Sorry about caps button sticks.

"In anticipation of the New Year holidays, we would like to announce you about release version of AIMP3.

Since the advent of the first public test version of the program took more than year - during which time much has been improved, many bug fixes, and some units had been completely rewritten from scratch.

Some of the major features in AIMP3 (compared with AIMP2):

New style of both the program and the project in whole
New version of skin-engine - focus to modern versions Windows
Own sound engine - output using ASIO / WASAPI / DirectSound methods
Playlists - Added "Single playlist mode"
Playlists - Added ability to lock playlist from changes
Playlists - Added ability to set individual appearance settings for every playlist
Playlists - Extended functionality for working with groups
Support of surround sound 5.1 / 7.1
Completely redesigned the Audio Library
Full support of the ReplayGain
Plugins API has been redesigned
Usability has been improved

Audio Library: Added an ability to quickly navigate through field value with ALT key pressed
Audio Library: Speed of adding files into the database has been increased
Audio Library: An ability to choose default player - AIMP or build-in player of Audio Library
Audio Library: The storage of playlists has been moved to the playlists manager of the player
Audio Library: An ability of access to the catalog of Internet radio stations has been removed
Audio Library: An ability of access to the content of flash-drives from Audio Library has been removed
Audio Converter: The "Audio Converter" utility is distributed with the player again
Audio Converter: Added an ability to encode files using few threads
Audio Converter: Added an ability to encode files to APE, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WV, WMA and MP3 formats (Lame Encoder should be installed)
Audio Converter: New design
Common: Design of default skin has been updated
Common: Skins are now stored in the profile folder of the program
Playlist: All playlists are stored now in profile folder of the program
Playlist: Playlists are not deleted now from the disk when you close playlist tab (optional)
Playlist: Playlists Manager Dialog has been added
Playlist: Added an ability of semiautomatic synchronization of the playlist with the specified folder or playlist
Playlist: Added an ability to load few playlists to separate tabs via Drag-n-Drop operation
Playlist: Added an ability to work with groups via keyboard
Playlist: Usability of multiple files selection using mouse has been improved
Plugins: Update Checker - Added an ability to download and install an update in semiautomatically mode
Skin Engine: Text drawing speed is increased twice
[li]Sound Engine: Algorithm of the resampler has been improved